This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $269,979 to the Santa Fe Institute of Science to conduct collaborative research on developing robust digital twin models that can accurately predict the behavior of complex systems under unexpected conditions. The key objectives are to: Investigate the generalization abilities of digital twins by combining mathematical tools from nonlinear dynamics and machine...
This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems supports research by the University of Miami on "Digital Network Twins: Mapping Next Generation Wireless into Digital Reality." The project explores methodologies to create accurate digital replicas ("twins") of physical next-generation wireless networks, such as 5G/6G and millimeter-wave/terahertz systems. This includes developing novel mapping approaches,...
This $399,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of a comprehensive framework for enhanced managed spectrum sharing in the FR3 frequency band (7-24 GHz). The project aims to create a precise wireless digital twin to accurately model signal propagation and enable advanced spectrum access and management systems. This will facilitate more efficient spectrum...
This $256,000 National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate Project Grant supports the development of a digital twin composition method by Diamond Age Technology LLC. The awardee will develop techniques to efficiently combine disparate data sources describing industrial process facilities into a single digital representation with sub-centimeter accuracy. This digital twin can then be projected into spatial computing environments like virtual and augmented reality. The goal is to encode...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $100,000 in funding to Arizona State University (ASU) for the Center for Digital Twins in Manufacturing (CDTM). The CDTM will address fundamental research challenges in developing, deploying, maintaining, and evaluating digital twins in manufacturing environments. Key focus areas include digital twin frameworks and standards, digital twin applications, and digital twin tools and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant award provides $174,980 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop techniques and a framework for enabling "live 3D digital twins" - real-time digital representations of 3D physical objects. The project aims to create adaptive digital twin pipelines that can maintain low latency and high accuracy across varying network and compute resources, with applications...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,000.00 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to establish the Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Digital Twins in Manufacturing (IUCRC-DTM). The primary objectives of the IUCRC-DTM are to: Develop a maintainable, extensible, and reusable digital twin framework that enables interoperability and new applications across manufacturing domains. Improve key digital...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $370,774 to the University of Houston System to develop an innovative framework for learning digital twins of human physiology. The goal is to create personalized, data-enabled digital models that can simulate glucose metabolism and help evaluate new treatments and technologies for type 1 diabetes management, without the risks of real-world trials. The research...
This $400,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is funding the development of a comprehensive framework for managed spectrum sharing in the FR3 frequency band (7-24 GHz). The key products and services being delivered under this 3-year award (10/1/2024 - 9/30/2027) include: Building a wireless digital twin to accurately model signal propagation and enable spectrum access/management...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $299,555 will fund a collaborative research project between investigators in the USA and Finland. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NSF-RCF: NETS: SMALL: CO-DESIGNING ANTENNA-ANALOG-DIGITAL DOMAINS FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT WIRELESS NETWORKS", aims to develop a novel "Mixed Domain Design" (MD2) framework and practical designs for...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $499,715 to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to develop a digital twin for an intelligent electromagnetic sensor on a chip (IEM-SOC). The key objectives are to produce a digital twin for designing and testing an intelligent RF receiver capable of real-time, low-power operations; create a digital model of an analog memory array accounting for high-frequency effects; and demonstrate a memory array operating system enabling precise analog data processing. This interdisciplinary effort aims to revolutionize the design and development of a new class of electromagnetic edge sensors that surpass current capabilities. The award period runs from June 15, 2025 to May 31, 2027. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.